Priyanka Champaneri, author of the 2018 New Immigrant Writing Prize-winning debut The City of Good Death, will be attending this year’s Fall for the Book Festival at her alma mater George Mason University in Fairfax, Viriginia!

Priyanka will be in conversation, “Alumni Journeys: Writing Around the Globe,” with fellow alumni and authors Stephanie Vanderslice, John Vanderslice, and Matt Smythe. Ranging from India to Germany, and from Arkansas to the front lines and then back home, the works of four Mason alumni will take readers on many journeys.

When: Saturday, October 15 at 1:00 pm EDT
Where: In-person at the Horizon Hall Atrium
George Mason University, 4400 University Drive, Fairfax, VA 22030

Participants:
Priyanka Champaneri received her MFA in creative writing from George Mason University and has been a fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts numerous times. Her debut novel, The City of Good Death, won the 2018 Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing and was recently shortlisted for the 2021 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize.

Stephanie Vanderslice’s novel The Lost Son, chronicles a mother’s quest from Depression-era New York to the German front during World War II.

John Vanderslice’s novel Nous Nous is centered around two heartbreaking kidnappings in small town Arkansas.

Matt Smythe’s poetry collection, Revision of a Man examines masculinity through the shifting lens of fatherhood, military service, the outdoors, and more.